Icelandair is pleased to announce scheduled services between London Heathrow and Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA) starting 22 July 2009. Flights will connect via Reykjavik, allowing passengers the option to stop over in Iceland at no additional cost.
The Icelandic flag carrier will offer four Seattle flights a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday) departing London at 13.00 and arriving at 16.45 in Seattle. Working in co-operation with Alaska Airlines, this early arrival allows for a host of onward connections to destinations in the western United States and Canada, including: Anchorage, Calgary, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Vancouver. Returning flights depart Seattle on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 15.30, arriving in London at 11.45 the following day. Flights to Seattle will also be available from Manchester, but will require an overnight stopover in Iceland.
The route will be flown by 183-seat Boeing 757 aircraft offering Saga Business Class, Economy Comfort Class and Economy Class. Passengers will enjoy new leather-upholstered seats with state-of-the-art personalised entertainment systems.
Icelandair is known for being a pioneer and using the strength of its mid-Atlantic hub in Iceland to connect Europe with North America; so despite the current economic climate, the Seattle service is considered an opportunity to provide customers with a new destination and cost-effective way to travel to the western United States and Canada. “One could say the launch of the Seattle service smells like Viking spirit,” said Hjorvar Saeberg Hognason, General Manager – UK & Ireland. “With its accessible nature, active lifestyle and music scene, Seattle is a very similar destination to Iceland. We believe both are growing destinations waiting to be explored. And with the option of the Iceland stopover, we hope that passengers will consider combining Seattle and Iceland to make a unique holiday.”
With roots stretching back 70 years, Icelandair is proud of its position as one of the world’s longest established airlines. The airline has been a member of IATA since 1950, a member of AEA since 1957 and the International Flight Safety Foundation since 1966. Today, Icelandair’s route network is composed of 25 international gateways including London Heathrow and Manchester in the UK. In addition to Seattle, Icelandair also provides service to Reykjavik, Iceland and six North American gateways: Boston, Halifax, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York City, Orlando and Toronto.
Visit www.icelandair.co.uk for further information.
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Would be better to set up a route to Moscow or Peterburg.
This would both bring more tourists to Iceland from Russia and extra transit passengers flying from Russia to USA.
Now many people juts reluctant to fly here due to inconvenient (and expensive) connection flights… and as such go to Norway, Denmark, Holland, Sweden.
@Viking
Yes dream on, in a few months you will hardly have money to eat. This is going to be like Rumania or Bulgaria, Tarom flights to almos every city in europa but check who many Rumanians can pay a ticket, its 90% forigners.
Wow, this is great news! I personally am madly in love with Vancouver, Canada, and the whole west coast of the US and Canada for that matter! It will make for some great travel opportunities!Hopefully it wont be too expensive.
Icelandair is buying 4 Boeing 787 Dreamliner
they will be ready in 2012-13
Salt Investments a company owned by Robert Wessmann is working with Mayo Clinic in USA on a project to import patients from USA , he has started a traveling agency to support this called Pure Health, if this gets approved by healt authoritys the first patients will arrive in the last quarter of this year.
Sounds good, creates some 300 jobs, keeps our people in the helth sector busy and generates a cashflow in US dollars.
2 Danish F-16 fighters flew east to drive some Russian long range bombers out of Icelandic airspace, this is probably not something they do every day in Denmark,
http://grapevine.is/Home/ReadArticle/Danish-Air-Force-Patrolling-Iceland
http://forsvaret.dk/FTK/Nyt%20og%20Presse/Pressemeddelelser/Pages/PressemeddelelseIsland.aspx
I see they also starts a similar service to the airport 15 km from my home, Stavanger – Reykjavik -New York is not bad.
Great flight and news for Americans and Europeans, Icelanders wont be able to aforth flying anymore.
That’s great! I still wish they would bring back the flights to Baltimore though.